A new survey finds that 80 million Americans, or 36 percent of the population, believe UFOs are real. One in 10 respondents say they have personally witnessed an alien spaceship. And if aliens were to invade the country sometime in the next four years, 65 percent of survey respondents said President Obama would be better suited for handling the invasion than Republican presidential candidate Romney.

The market research company Kelton Research conducted the survey by polling a random nationwide sample of 1,114 Americans ages 18 and older, who were representative of the demographics of the nation as a whole. The survey was commissioned by the National Geographic Channel to promote its new series "Chasing UFOs."

To the question of whether they believe aliens have visited Earth, 36 percent of Americans who were surveyed said they do, 48 percent aren't sure, and 17 percent said they don't believe so. More than three in four Americans (77 percent) think there are signs that suggest aliens have visited the Earth, whether or not they've made up their minds about the question.

The results align with other modern studies of UFO belief. For example, a 2008 survey of 1,003 adult Americans conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University also found that a third of adults believe it's either very likely or somewhat likely that intelligent aliens from space have visited our planet. One in 12 said they had personally seen a mysterious object in the sky that they thought might have been an alien spaceship.

More surprisingly, the new NatGeo survey found that a whopping 79 percent of people think the government has kept information about UFOs a secret from the public, and more than half (55 percent) believe there are real-life "Men in Black"-style agents who threaten people who spot UFOs.

Gotta be real careful dealing with aliens. Obama may not be the best choice as First Contact. For instance, among humans, in the USA making a circle with your index finger and thumb means “OK”, while to a Russian it’s a rude insult.

And I’ll bet there’s a greater than 99% correlation between those who believe in the Obamadork and those who believe in space aliens. Hmmm, while I’m at it, I’ll even throw in believe in human caused global warming.

Same groups, same lack of any logic, and most certainly, same total non-knowledge of science.

So when the advanced civilization comes to Obama and says... ‘You are not an advanced race of being, you slaughter your unborn in the womb rather than control your baser instincts. That is not advanced, it’s barbaric’

What will Obama’s response be?

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posted on 07/13/2012 10:09:34 AM PDT
by dannyboy72a
(the circuit is closing)

Obama is more likely a space alien than he is an American citizen. People may be right in thinking he could do a better job handling space aliens, but the question is what kind of handling he would do. Be wary of putting nasty, little faggots in charge of things.

In a practical sense, there just cannot be aliens zipping around in “normal space” in any sense of the word.

Just to get to the nearest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light years away. To get there in three weeks, someone would need to travel at 64 times the speed of light. The closest star that comes even theoretically close to maybe having a habitable planet is Gliese 581g, at over 20 light years away.

This means that space aliens would almost have to travel via an “alternative space”, where relative distances are much less.

Just to get to the nearest star to our sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light years away. To get there in three weeks, someone would need to travel at 64 times the speed of light.

That's three weeks our time. It could be done in three weeks of subjective time, i.e. three weeks of time as measured from the spacecraft, at a much lower rate of speed... some large percentage of C. I've forgotten how to run the Lorentz equations to figure it exactly, but it can be done.

Almost all Americans who beleive that space aliens could get here from a planet hundreds of light years away (186000 miles a second) in a life time, knowing which planet to aim for, would be likely to think that Obama could be better equipt to handle them. Einstein was right! There may be someone else out there. We will never get to know.

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